Tursenstein ruins
| Tursenstein ruins | ||
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 Northeast Wall |
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| Alternative name (s): | Barren castle, Stein am Kamp | |
| Creation time : | after 1018 | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Place: | Altenburg | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 37 '45.7 " N , 15 ° 36' 18.8" E | |
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The castle Tursenstein , Barren Castle or Stein am Kamp called, is the ruins of a medieval hilltop castle in the town of Altenburg in the district of Horn in Lower Austria . The castle ruins are under monument protection ( list entry ).
location
The castle ruins are located on the so-called Kleine Umlaufberg , a towering rock cone that partially slopes downwards to the Kamp, 1.7 kilometers south-southeast of Altenburg. The castle hill on the left bank of the river is washed by the river on three sides and is only connected to the northern hinterland by a narrow, saddle-like bridge.
history
The Counts of Poigen-Rebgau are considered to be the founders of the castle. The foundation can be assumed in the period after the defeat of Mailberg (1082). After several changes of ownership, Stein am Kamp Castle came to the Tursen before 1337. In 1337 Reinprecht von Turs received permission to rebuild and expand the castle. In 1396 Duke Albrecht IV handed the castle over to Altenburg Abbey , which was able to demolish the seat in exchange for considerable compensation. As early as 1419, reports were made of "the desolate place where Tursenstain Castle once stood".
description
Only remnants of the wall remain from the originally triangular castle.
literature
- Evelyn Benesch, Bernd Euler-Rolle , Claudia Haas, Renate Holzschuh-Hofer, Wolfgang Huber, Katharina Packpfeifer, Eva Maria Vancsa-Tironiek, Wolfgang Vogg: Lower Austria north of the Danube (= Dehio-Handbuch . Die Kunstdenkmäler Österreichs ). Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna et al. 1990, ISBN 3-7031-0652-2 , p. 30 .
- Georg Binder: The Lower Austrian castles and palaces. 2 volumes, Hartleben Verlag, Vienna / Leipzig 1925, II, p. 36.
- Falko Daim , Karin Kühtreiber, Thomas Kühtreiber : Castles - Waldviertel, Wachau, Moravian Thayatal . 2nd edition, Verlag Freytag & Berndt, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-7079-1273-9 , pp. 60 ff.
- Friedrich-Wilhelm Krahe: Castles of the German Middle Ages, floor plan dictionary . Würzburg 1994, p. 617.
- Gerhard Reichhalter, Karin and Thomas Kühtreiber: Castles Waldviertel Wachau . Verlag Schubert & Franzke, St. Pölten 2001, ISBN 3705605305 , p. 54 ff.
- Gerhard Reichhalter : The Tursenstein castle ruins near Altenburg . in Gruber Burgblätter 8 (edited by Franz Josef Hampapa), Messern 1993.
- Anna Maria Sigmund : The desolate castle. Ownership history of the fortress Tursenstein am Kamp . Kamptal-Studien 1, Gars am Kamp 1981, pp. 96-101.
Web links
- Entry about the Tursenstein ruins in Lower Austria castles online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, University of Salzburg
- Entry on Tursenstein in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Tursenstein at Wehrbauten.at
Individual evidence
- ^ Lower Austria - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento from February 20, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF), ( CSV ). Federal Monuments Office , as of January 17, 2018.